vulturius
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯ulˈtu.ri.us/, [u̯ʊɫ̪ˈt̪ʊriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /vulˈtu.ri.us/, [vul̪ˈt̪uːrius]
Noun
vulturius m (genitive vulturiī or vulturī); second declension
- vulture
- a rapacious person
- (dice games) an unlucky throw
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
- (vulture): vultur
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: avvoltoio
- → Venetian: avoltogio
- Sicilian: vuturu, avuturu
- Italian: avvoltoio
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
- “vulturius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vulturius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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